> My own impression is that the more data there is, the better for researchers. The downside of this, is you end up with buildings full of things no one looks

> My own impression is that the more data there is, the better for researchers. The downside of this, is you end up with buildings full of things no one looks at. You can't hold onto all the world's art, history, and scientific samples, without eventually throwing some stuff out. It will probably never be cheap to store something like "The full set of all Facebook photos and videos", which means we'll probably end up keeping a sample of some of this stuff.